At MIT this fall: urban utopias.
This Is Tomorrow: Utopia - Dystopia - Heterotopia
MIT Visual Arts Program
Fall 2008

September 29, Imagining Communities, Jesko Fezer
Series introduction by Ute Meta Bauer, Director of the MIT Visual Arts Program; Yvonne P. Doderer, architect and urban research, MIT Visiting Professor in Visual Arts; Jesko Fezer, architect, collaboration with IFAU (Institute of Applied Urbanism) and co-editor of AnArchitektur, Berlin, Germany.

November 3, Mobile Life, Ghost Towns, Lukas Feireiss, AbdouMaliq Simone
Lukas Feireiss, curator, and editor of “Architecture of Change: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment”; AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmith University of London, UK.

November 17, Remote Habitats, Lucy Orta, Nicholas Makris, Armin Linke
Lucy Orta, Studio-Orta, Paris, France and Professor for Art, Fashion and the Environment, London College of Fashion, UK; Nicholas Makris, Professor of Engineering and Director of the MIT Laboratory of Undersea Remote Sensing; Armin Linke, photographer and film maker, Milan, Italy and guest professor at the HFG Karlruhe, Germany.Horror Hospital release

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  1. Isaac says:

    will you be there, Yaz?
    I will be in Harvard for weeks from mid Oct.

  2. Yaz says:

    Why not!? The lecturers are awesome :)

  3. ute meta bauer says:

    there are more dates to join:

    The Right to the City
    Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Delhi, India), Philippe Rekacewicz (Arendal, Norway)
    October 20 from 7-9 pm

    and
    Urban Culture, Urban Agriculture?
    Nikolaus Hirsch (Frankfort on Main, Germany), Ingrid Book & Carina Heden (Oslo, Norway)

    thx for listing us.
    umb

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